Gum acacia is a potent drug having diverse pharmacological effects and wide therapeutic potential. It is used in diarrhoea and dysentery, irritations and ulcers of the stomach and intestine. It is also used in haemoptysis, bleeding piles, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea and spermatorrhoea. Keeping in view the high medicinal importance physico-chemical studies of the drug obtained from Dawakhana Tibbiya College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh has been done. The parameters applied for the present study include extractive value, ash value, moisture content, TLC, pH value, qualitative phytochemical studies and fluorescent analysis.